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https://ladyraradotcom.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/48/#respondThu, 10 May 2012 23:43:06 +0000http://ladyraradotcom.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/48/paperballpotluck: On Saturday Feb 18, I biked from my house across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and back again. Why? For funsies. Why didn’t I take the ferry back like almost everyone else? Because I’m crazy I love exercise. It doesn’t sound too bad and probably isn’t for a few people…]]>

On Saturday Feb 18, I biked from my house across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and back again. Why? For funsies. Why didn’t I take the ferry back like almost everyone else? Because I’m crazy I love exercise.

It doesn’t sound too bad and probably isn’t for a few people or most people visiting my blog, but I’ll get a few things straight. I was dehydrated and I don’t bike regularly (yet). In fact, since moving here, I’ve biked more than I have in the last 10-15 years of my life. If I had biked just once since moving here, that would still be more biking than I’ve done in the last 10-15 years of my life. Oh wait, I lied about that second part. I used Capital Bike Share twice in DC. I’ve gone on a few rides here. My longest being 15 miles, but that was broken…

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https://ladyraradotcom.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/35mm-camerasa-personal-memory-snapshot/#respondThu, 26 Jan 2012 20:43:03 +0000http://ladyraradotcom.wordpress.com/?p=35I ‘m feeling a bit wistful today;I saw a sign on the door of the local CVS Pharmacy saying that they’re no longer developing 35mm film. Don’t get wrong;I love my digital but,yes,it’s the end of an era. My first camera was one of those Kodak Instamatics ;it was a gift from my aunt & it was “gently used” not that I cared;I was thrilled to have my own camera & soon was taking pics of everyone & everything,no matter how mundane the subject. Later, I graduated to one that my dad (who was working as a family photographer at the time)helped me pick out in a Thrift Shop;it was an ugly snot-green color & took only 126 film which you couldn’t find in just any drugstore;you had to go to a Camera Shop & purchase it here. Also,the photos were fomated like the kind you see in very old photo albums with the thick black border. In High School,I took a photography class so I (finally) got my first of several 35mm cameras & going from the blurry 110 & 126 cameras was a revelation for me. I took it to Hawaii & was snapping pics of my brother picking coconuts off Palm Trees (ala Mowgli in “The Jungle Book”)crashing waves & Hula Dancers I cherished that camera and was heartbroken when I lost it. Other cameras followed, but, for me,that camera couldn’t be replaced I guess cause it was the first “real” one I owned & you never forget your first(or so they say) The last 35mm I used before going Digital was one I ordered online. At this point in my life I was performing in local theater productions and so that camera was put to use taking taking taking of fellow cast members in heavy stage make-up & period costumes. It was while doing one of these shows that I noticed someone using one of those new Digital Cameras. I was intrigued ;you mean you can delete a shot that you don’t like? As well as not having to be confined to 24 or 36 photos as well as (& I hated doing this) winding the film . Anyway,once I found out I was to be going to be a aunt I went out and bought my own Digital Camera & haven’t looked back since as my 35mm collected dust(&,as of this writing still is.) Perhaps I’ll give it to someone who might appreciate it (and doesn’t mind having to search a bit for the film to use it) I can give it to a Thrift Shop or…perhaps I’ll just keep it.
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